Schematic Representations of Depressed Individuals
       Negative beliefs and attitudes towards life in general are characteristics of depressed individuals. According to the cognitive model, maladaptive belief patterns are present in the overall view of life of a depressed person. Read the patterns, or as the cognitive model would put it, the schemas below, and try to identify some of the symptoms of depression that might result from them:

1.Cognitive-conceptual schema leads to the perception of an actual or threatened loss;

2.Affective schemas represent the subjective state of sadness;

3.Physiological schemas involve a perceived state of fatigue or physiological deactivation;

4.Motivational schemas associated with a state of helplessness, lack of goal directedness, or loss of pleasurable engagement;

5. Behavioral schemas represent a response action plan characterized by withdrawal and inactivity.

Now that you guessed some of the symptoms based on the schemas, check a list of symptoms of depression by clicking  here

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